Susan Brown

Susan Brown is a licensed psychologist practicing in both Florida and Pennsylvania with two decades of clinical experience. She works primarily with women and girls who are navigating the complex demands of modern life, and she also treats depression and anxiety using established therapeutic approaches.

Her work blends insights from clinical practice and organizational experience into classic talk therapy informed by evidence-based methods. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to create structured, practical sessions that focus on measurable progress and meaningful change.

In addition to traditional therapy, Susan offers life skills coaching that teaches specific, observable skills inside a therapeutic setting. This approach often begins with an assessment to identify target areas and can feel more accessible to many children than conventional therapy. Parents frequently find it helpful when they wonder what concrete steps they should take to support their family. Skill practices include listening, appreciative inquiry, negotiation, organization and planning, goal setting, progress management and techniques for getting heard and understood. The goal is a more positive, productive and satisfying family relationship and a clear blueprint for adapting relationships across developmental stages.

Susan has extensive experience helping parents and adolescents manage changing relationships. She supports parents in recognizing developmental milestones and negotiating a positive relationship with their adolescent while fulfilling parental responsibilities. For teenagers, she helps build a stable sense of self while maintaining family connections by teaching skills such as listening, appreciative inquiry, negotiation and perspective-taking.

Her expertise also covers body image and eating disorders, with a focus on the anxiety and depression that often accompany this spectrum of issues. She addresses the cultural pressures that shape unrealistic body expectations and the ways those pressures can contribute to disordered eating, particularly among adolescent girls.

She also works with adult children of alcoholics, a group that frequently develops strong survival strategies that can interfere with intimate relationships. High-functioning adults in this population can benefit from a supportive, structured therapeutic process that helps them build closer connections and healthier relationship patterns.